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    Being Nixon: A Man Divided
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    Being Nixon: A Man Divided
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    Being Nixon: A Man Divided

    Written by Evan Thomas

    Narrated by Bob Walter

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    About this audiobook

    The landmark New York Times bestselling biography of Richard M. Nixon, a political savant whose gaping character flaws would drive him from the presidency and forever taint his legacy. 

    “A biography of eloquence and breadth . . . No single volume about Nixon’s long and interesting life could be so comprehensive.”—Chicago Tribune

    One of Time’s Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the Year

    In this revelatory biography, Evan Thomas delivers a radical, unique portrait of America’s thirty-seventh president, Richard Nixon, a contradictory figure who was both determinedly optimistic and tragically flawed. One of the principal architects of the modern Republican Party and its “silent majority” of disaffected whites and conservative ex-Dixiecrats, Nixon was also deemed a liberal in some quarters for his efforts to desegregate Southern schools, create the Environmental Protection Agency, and end the draft.

    The son of devout Quakers, Richard Nixon (not unlike his rival John F. Kennedy) grew up in the shadow of an older, favored brother and thrived on conflict and opposition. Through high school and college, in the navy and in politics, Nixon was constantly leading crusades and fighting off enemies real and imagined. He possessed the plainspoken eloquence to reduce American television audiences to tears with his career-saving “Checkers” speech; meanwhile, Nixon’s darker half hatched schemes designed to take down his political foes, earning him the notorious nickname “Tricky Dick.” Drawing on a wide range of historical accounts, Thomas’s biography reveals the contradictions of a leader whose vision and foresight led him to achieve détente with the Soviet Union and reestablish relations with communist China, but whose underhanded political tactics tainted his reputation long before the Watergate scandal.

    A deeply insightful character study as well as a brilliant political biography, Being Nixon offers a surprising look at a man capable of great bravery and extraordinary deviousness—a balanced portrait of a president too often reduced to caricature.

    Praise for Being Nixon

    “Terrifically engaging . . . a fair, insightful and highly entertaining portrait.”—The Wall Street Journal

    “Thomas has a fine eye for the telling quote and the funny vignette, and his style is eminently readable.”—The New York Times Book Review
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
    Release dateJun 16, 2015
    ISBN9781101922866
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    Being Nixon: A Man Divided
    Author

    Evan Thomas

    Evan Thomas is the author of ten books, including the New York Times bestsellers JOHN PAUL JONES, SEA OF THUNDER, and FIRST: SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR. Thomas was a writer, correspondent, and editor for thirty-three years at Time and Newsweek, including ten years as Newsweek’s Washington bureau chief. He appears regularly on many TV and radio talk shows. Thomas has taught at Harvard and Princeton.

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    • 5/5
      Even though in July of 1995 I read Stephen Ambrose's three-volume biography of Nixon, I read this book since I believe Evan Thomas is a great narrator of interesting history (this is the 5th book by him which I have read, the others being The Wise Men (read 8 Dec 1991), The Man To See (read 17 Jan 1992), Sea of Thunder (read 18 Aug 2008), and The War Lovers (read 8 Oct 2010). While I always was opposed to Nixon and always when I could voted against him, I found that the good things which Thomas says about Nixon valid. Certainly his opening to China was a bold and good step which Republicans would have screamed against if it had been done by a Democrat. He clearly flubbed up in failing to end the Vietnam War sooner than he did. The account of Watergate is well done and exciting to read, even though we are all so familiar with that spectacle. I did not find an uninteresting page in this well-written and well -researched book.
    • 5/5
      This is an amazing psychological profile of Richard Nixon that looks at his childhood influences, his growth into an adult and his career in politics. The author shows the reader how Watergate was not just a fluke in his career, but the culmination of his weaknesses and the choices he made that led him to take steps that destroyed his presidency. It is a frightening look at a man who should never have been elected president, and was twice, with the largest majority in history for his second term, but who was so driven by his insecurities and fears that he engaged in conduct that was both immoral and illegal on a consistent basis. This is a wonderful and insightful look at history.